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Lectures and Other Geological EventsLondon Branch organizes a series of lectures on a variety of geological themes. The guest lecturers are drawn from the ranks of professional and serious lay geologists. LECTURE VENUE AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMOur meetings are held in the Courtyard Rooms in the basement. We have to provide a list of names for the security points and will be required to show membership cards. IT IS ESSENTIAL that you make contact and register if you are at all interested in attending and to get confirmation of arrangements – you can always cancel. Note that the start time for talks is 7.00 pm. You cannot enter before 6.30pm and you will not be able to enter after 7.00pm. Access to the Courtyard Room is via Museum Lane just beyond the entrance to the Earth Galleries. Walk through the arch to have your name ticked off at the security point. Access is only possible between 6.30 and 7.0 pm when we will have staff members posted at the two security points to let you through. Courtyard Rooms is marked 'Waterhouse Building East' on the map. We will all try and leave together via the back car park. The nearest tube station is South Kensington. Contact Di Clements Registering Your Interest In An EventNow there is a new and convenient way of registering for or asking questions about any or all of our events online, using the Registration Form. Simply select the events you are interested in, enter your contact details and press the button. The organisers of the events you have selected will contact you and confirm your registration. You can use the form as many time as you like and you are not committed to anything by registering an interest - you are saving the LOUGS money and the organisers' time by registering in this way. Go on, give it a go. If you have any problems or questions, please contact me at gavin@lougs.org.uk.
As well as lectures, London Branch also organizes other geological events during the afternoons or evenings. September Thursday 16TALK: ‘Ten things you did not know about the geological evolution of the Thames’ by Andrew Newell The Thames is one of Britain's great rivers. This talk tracks the geological history of the River Thames catchment from Jurassic rift valleys to Tertiary Alpine tectonics and the duel between rivers and ice-sheets during the Quaternary. Extensive use is made of 3D graphics to clarify the issues and place them within a broad global tectonic and climatic framework. Di Clements October Thursday 21TALK: ‘Reconstructing Late Quaternary climate variability in the Russian Arctic’ by Angela Self (PhD student and OU tutor) Media images of rapidly declining sea-ice and desperate polar bears reinforce the perception that the whole Arctic is rapidly warming. However recent satellite and instrumental records suggest this is too simplistic with significant spatial and seasonal variations in temperature trends, particularly within northern Eurasia. Non-biting midges (Insecta: Diptera: Chironomidae) are sensitive indicators of environmental and climatic change. In my research I use chironomid remains preserved in lake sediments to reconstruct past summer temperatures in arctic Russia over the Late Quaternary. In this talk I will describe the difficulties and pleasures of fieldwork in Arctic Russia, the development of the chironomid-climate models and present results from Siberia and European Russia. Di Clements November Thursday 18Members’ Evening - Jenny Parry Di Clements December Thursday 9TALK: ‘The role of a mantle plume in the formation of the Siberian Traps’ by Andy Saunders Di Clements
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